Magnetic readback microscopy applied to laser-texture characterization in standard desktop disk drives

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1777-1779

  Schreck, E ^a   Kimball, R ^a   Sonnenfeld, R ^a  

^a MAXTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk drive; Failure analysis; Laser texture ; Magnetic microscopy; Magnetic readback

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; TEXTURES;

LASER BUMP ANNEALING; LASER TEXTURE CHARACTERIZATION; MAGNETIC READBACK MICROSCOPY (MRM); THERMAL PROXIMITY MAPPING (TPM);

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0032115758     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706703     Document Type: Article

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